Missing from the purgegate docs: evidence of concern about impact on the Department's effectiveness

David Kurtz at Talking Points Memo makes an important observation:

... in the documents released by the Justice Department which I have reviewed, I have not seen any sort of reference to the impact of the dismissals on ongoing investigations. No mention of it being taken into consideration. No sign of internal discussions about ensuring that the continuity of the investigations were maintained. No reference to deliberations over the allocation of manpower and resources. In short, nothing to suggest that disrupting major high-profile investigations was an outcome to be avoided.

Lots of attention has rightly been paid to another dog that did not bark: the lack of a department paper trial for the alleged "performance-related problems" that the officials claim were the basis for the dismissals. But in a scandal where the worst suspicion is that the dismissals were intended to impede ongoing public corruption investigations of Republicans, the absence in the record of any reference to the effect the dismissals might have on those investigations seems like a particularly glaring omission.

It seems to me that in any other organization in the world, the most important concern you would have over major personnel changes would be the effect of those changes on the effectiveness of the organization. The absence of any evidence of such concern here here is perhaps the most glaring evidence of, at minimum, the utter incompetence of DOJ's management and is probably evidence of its sheer corruption.